New Community of Practice Dedicated to Building the Drug Safety Body of Knowledge
Douglas Connect announces the formation of a Community of Practice (CoP) for Drug Safety Knowledge Management. Dedicated to creating a Drug Safety Body of Knowledge, the CoP will hold its first InterAction meetings in Philadelphia, PA (April 25-26) and Basel, Switzerland (May 30-31), supported by ongoing collaboration through InnovationWell™, a broader-based CoP initiated in 2003 for integrating knowledge management across the pharmaceutical, life science and healthcare industries.
Zeiningen, Switzerland (PRWEB) March 21, 2005 -- Douglas Connect announces
the formation of a Community of Practice (CoP) for Drug Safety Knowledge
Management. Dedicated to creating a Drug Safety Body of Knowledge, the CoP will
hold its first InterAction meetings in Philadelphia, PA (April 25-26) and Basel,
Switzerland (May 30-31), supported by ongoing collaboration through
InnovationWell™, a broader-based CoP for integrating knowledge management across
the pharmaceutical, life science and healthcare industries.
As Sidney
Kahn, president of Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management, Inc. and one of the
community's founders, said "Recent events have highlighted the strategic value
to pharmaceutical companies of ongoing careful evaluation of drug safety
information. Unfortunately, current structures and practices often do not allow
ready access to the comprehensive body of information on all aspects of safety
that companies accumulate throughout the product life cycle, which hampers both
early detection and subsequent evaluation of unexpected safety findings."
Another CoP founder, James Averback of Life Science Integration
Partners, continued "We need to develop information practices and systems that
can identify early signals, evaluate and track potential safety hypotheses
throughout a product's life and which are optimized for this type of long term
knowledge integration. By bringing together expertise from across the board of
drug development in a non-competitive environment where ideas, practice
information and technical know-how can be exchanged in an ongoing dialog, we
believe we can improve organizational appreciation for and use of drug safety
knowledge throughout product development and clinical use."
"InnovationWell provides an excellent vehicle for this ongoing dialog,"
said InnovationWell's Community Coordinator, Barry Hardy of DouglasConnect, "as
all one-to-many communications, such as presentations, seminars or position
papers, can be made permanently available to members through the website,
leaving all the time at the InterAction meetings free for panel discussions,
sub-group activities and individual networking. A unique feature of the format
is that registrants at either meeting will also have full access to all the
virtual materials from the other meeting and can participate in the regular
conference calls we'll be having on specific topics. Recordings of these
conference calls will also be put on the website and, together with various
online communication facilities, will facilitate ongoing
collaboration."
In addition to Sidney Kahn and James Averback, discussion
leaders include Sheryl Torr-Brown of Pfizer, Peter Elkin of the Mayo Clinic,
Jeff Spitzner of Rescentris, Douglas Weidner of the KM Institute and Eric
Neumann of Sanofi-Aventis.
Full information about the Drug Safety CoP and
InterAction Meetings can be found on http://innovationwell.net
Contact: Nicki Douglas,
e-mail protected from spam bots, Tel: +41 61 851 04 61
Douglas Connect
(www.douglasconnect.com)
Douglas Connect organises both
independent and sponsored conferences for the Life Sciences, as well as
providing consultancy services for setting up communities of expertise and for a
range of communication projects. InnovationWell™ was formerly known as 'KM in
Pharma & Life Science' and has been running since 2003. Douglas Connect is
based in Zeiningen, Switzerland.
Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management
, Inc. (www.pvrm.com)
PvRM
provides expert advice on all aspects of pharmacovigilance to pharmaceutical
manufacturers, pharmaceutical industry support organizations, and health
authorities worldwide. PvRM is based in Huntingdon Valley, PA
Life
Science Integration Partners (www.ls-integration-partners.com)
LSIP provides consultancy
services in the areas of Product Information Management strategies leading to
Knowledge Integration and Collaboration in Pharmaceutical Product Development
& Commercialization, and Global Regulatory Information Management strategies
in Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting, Global Electronic (CTD) Submissions,
Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management and Global Regulatory Submission
Management. LSIP is based in Huntingdon Valley, PA.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/3/prweb219314.htm